Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 243
in the centre or the table, but only the middle section is now left. Be-side the piece of slate is a paper written by the late John Preston ofNew Ipswich,NewHampshire, in1847, when hegave the table tothe AntiquarianSociety, detailingthe history of thetable from the timeit was given to hisancestor,… … 220 Furniture of the Olden Time ink-stains cover the marquetry border around thetop, and whose feet have worn the stretchers. Slate-top tables are very rare, and there are but few knownto exist. The turned legs and stretchers and thedrawer in the table are features which appear in
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